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Originally Posted by Straker
I'd take a 30 minuite sequel of MacReady & Childs freezing to death over a prequel about the Norwegian camp. Might well work and I'd be glad to say I was wrong, I just don't think the prequel idea suits this film. I'd rather see a sequel or straight remake, personally.
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I'd rather see nothing. Most remakes/reboots can sometimes make sense. Better technology, the story can be fleshed out more, etc. I'm of the opinion that The Thing is 100% solid as is. A prequel or sequel would realistically just be more of the same. The Thing gets found in the ice. It thaws. Havok ensues, but maybe just in a different language. The prequel, if it meshes with The Thing will probably be much the same as The Thing. A research team finds the saucer and the thing. It gets thawed out. Bloody mayhem ensues. Screams in funny sounding Norwegian ring out across the tundra. Or more than likely the actors will all be American, speak English, but just have Norwegian flags on their gear. The only way to make a sequel different would be to pull a Jason Takes Manhattan and have the Thing get transported to an urban center. Would either scenario actually add anything to the story? Not really. The prequel has already been explained quite fully in the original movie. Sure it might be cool to see it as a movie, but we all know how it will end. Everyone dead at the camp with the lone two survivors chasing a wold across the snowfields. The sequel idea is just a cash grab as far as I'm concerned. It would entail shoehorning a storyline onto a story that was already completed and would probably be just as effective as Jason Takes Manhattan.